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Melanotta velvotina. 
Maine (Lake Wnbagosj). 
While rov/ing dovni the Lake v/e discovered three of 
these Ducks s'viriming ''.yoII out from shore, nearly opposite 
j Black Island Cove. We got within about one hundred 
. yards of them Y;-hen they rose and fle'v up the Lake. One 
! w^s, a fine Drake,- the other two females. We could dis- 
I tinctly see the v/hite spot on the head oftho male and 
I the whits secondaries of all three gleamed in the sun as 
they flew past the overgroon-clad shores. 
A fine adult male swimming in the Lake off Great 
Island; the wind east arwl the Lake very roiigh. He 
was shy rising before we could get within gun-shot. 
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